Easy Homemade Craft Gifts for Kids

Your children can keep their prized possessions and treasures in a fly away decoupage box they made themselves.

What You'll Need:

Acrylic paint: ocean reef blue, white, and quaker gray

Unfinished wood or papier-mâché oval box

Bird stickers

Decoupage finish

Tools:

Waxed paper

Paper plates for palettes

1-inch foam brush

Household sponge

Scissors

How to Make a Fly Away Decoupage Box:

Step 1: Cover your children's work surface with waxed paper. Squirt a small puddle of blue paint onto a paper plate. Have your children take the lid off the box and use the foam brush to paint the outside of the lid and box blue. Let paint dry.

Step 2: Cut the sponge into a 1-1/2 x 1-1/2-inch square. Squirt a small puddle of white paint onto a plate and an even smaller puddle of gray right next to it (touching).

Step 3: Dampen the sponge and squeeze out all the extra water. Dip the end of the sponge into both colors of paint. Dab most of the paint off on a blank spot of the plate.